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Why we can't forget the racism of this campaign - (South Carolina waiter called "boy")
cnn ^ | November 16, 2016 | Isaac Bailey

Posted on 11/29/2016 11:53:34 AM PST by re_tail20

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To: re_tail20

I’m white...When I was 18 I could pass for 14, and I was constantly called “boy,” “youngster,” etc., by anyone and everyone over 30.


41 posted on 11/29/2016 12:20:09 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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OK. Say we accept this story as completely true:

How is this Trump’s fault, or the election’s fault?


42 posted on 11/29/2016 12:21:29 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: re_tail20

I live in South Carolina and most of the black men down here think that Hillary Clinton is a lying, corrupt, change-nothing douche...

Black men don’t want the continual tired old race card pandering bullshit anymore, they don’t want illegal immigrants or terrorists in our country, they don’t care about transgendered toilets, they want well paid jobs...


43 posted on 11/29/2016 12:22:09 PM PST by Geronimo ( To trump is to outrank or defeat someone or something...)
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To: re_tail20

Stupid story. Only a racist would create such an implausible connection.


44 posted on 11/29/2016 12:22:33 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: re_tail20

Good grief. What about Germans who called waiters “boy” over since before modern times. And in France where since millennia they call waitrs “garcon” which is boy. Those were all white men.


45 posted on 11/29/2016 12:23:59 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: re_tail20
Sounds hard to believe. Maybe 40-50 years ago, but today?

Surely someone else heard it, it it was actually said. Then again, what in hell does this have to do with Donald Trump, unless you are fabricating a narrative story?

46 posted on 11/29/2016 12:27:24 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRISON, 2020!)
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To: re_tail20

Sounds like some more fake news. Unless of course the elderly white man who said boy was Bill Clinton or some other senile Democrat.


47 posted on 11/29/2016 12:34:18 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: re_tail20

My uncle called me “Boy” until the day he died.

As in “hey boy. How ‘ya doin?”

As is “hey boy, grab the horns and help me drag this deer back to the truck”

I still miss him.

Shoulda beat his ass I guess. Insulting me like that.....


48 posted on 11/29/2016 12:34:55 PM PST by saleman (s)
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To: re_tail20

Good grief....after what white people have to put up with in this day & age, this cat gets upset over THAT?

Puh-lease


49 posted on 11/29/2016 12:37:57 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO)
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To: jughandle

Yes, my....what a coincidence


50 posted on 11/29/2016 12:39:46 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO)
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To: streetsmart

This is true. Nothing is thought of it when grown men (white, black, whatever) are called “son” or “boy”, but mostly by people who know them, like a man tells a tall tale, and the man listening says, “Aww com’on son, you know that ain’t nothing but a tale”.


51 posted on 11/29/2016 12:41:01 PM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: re_tail20

And this disturbing incident is PEOTUS Trump’s fault because _________ and worthy of a column because ___________.


52 posted on 11/29/2016 12:42:06 PM PST by onyx (CELEBRATE PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP'S VICTORY DONATE MONTHLY or JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: re_tail20

The alleged incident happened during the Øbongo regime yet he wants to blame Trump. Perfect “liberal logic”.


53 posted on 11/29/2016 12:42:59 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: re_tail20

Yeah, and in the South everyone is called a ‘good ol boy’.


54 posted on 11/29/2016 12:47:46 PM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants!)
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To: re_tail20

“That man called me boy,”

So? One of Cab Calloway’s most famous songs begins with “HEY BOY!”

“Boy” had always been used to call a pager or waiter in hotels. Remember Hey Boy from Paladin? He got upset when someone called him “Hey You!” He said... “My name not Hey YOU! My name Hey Boy!”

Then in North by Northwest, Cary Grant called over the page boy, with “Oh Boy..”


55 posted on 11/29/2016 12:49:43 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: re_tail20

“That was a few months ago. His was one of many stories that came back to me after election night, because it is illustrative of what many people of color are feeling as the words “President-elect...”

I was thinking the first stories we were going to hear after November 8 was the huge increase in the number of homeless and hopeless people in America. And the plight of those where the U.S. military are hitting civilian targets.

But no. Guess those stories will have to wait awhile.


56 posted on 11/29/2016 12:50:47 PM PST by jeffersondem
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Lol! Having worked in a restaurant in my younger days, the first thing I thought was that routine was probably this waiters racket, he identifies some liberal wracked by white guilt (maybe by their “I’m with her” t-shirt). Then he gives the ol’ “You see that guy, he called me boy...” routine and out roles the huge “tip”. He probably manages to pull it of several times a day...

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This.

South Carolina, the initiator of the American Civil War that was supposedly over slavery (i.e., whether blacks were totally human or not), is one of the states where the black population percentage is far greater than the national average.

Guys in overalls are usually farmers. Before Mexicans, blacks used to be steady agricultural employees.

You don’t usually stay and work in oppressive places in the U.S. Don’t they teach liberals about the Underground Railroad anymore? Oppressed blacks would flee to where they felt more free.


57 posted on 11/29/2016 1:00:48 PM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: re_tail20; All

More FAKE NEWS memes from CNN.
CNN has become the Comedic Version of old Soviet News Media.

I watched CNN for about 5 minutes today, and had to turn the channel after they said, “Trump’s crusade against Voter Fraud, for which absolutely no evidence of it exists.”

This came right after they said, “Trump has not held a news conference with the media in 45 days!”, (without mentioning the months Hillary had no pressers, and they did not care).

The old Soviet Information Ministry retirees must just be laughing their asses off watching this.


58 posted on 11/29/2016 1:15:24 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: re_tail20

Hmm, and lefties NEVER say anything hurtful.

They are always demure and polite.

Just like a little cuddly chinchilla.


59 posted on 11/29/2016 1:21:52 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Mears

Agreed and he’s likely a lib....crybabies all.


60 posted on 11/29/2016 1:26:17 PM PST by Gator113 (~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
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